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herfore holy brethre, partakers of the heauenly calling, consider the Apostle and high Priest of our profession Christ Iesus, |
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Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithfull in all his house. |
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For this man was counted worthy of more glory then Moses, in as much as he who hath builded the house, hath more honour then the house. |
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For euery house is builded by some man, but hee that built all things is God. |
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And Moses verely was faithfull in all his house as a seruant, for a testimonie of those things which were to be spoken after. |
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But Christ as a Sonne ouer his owne house, whose house are wee, if we hold fast the confidence, and the reioycing of the hope firme vnto the end. |
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Wherfore as the holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will heare his voyce, |
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Harden not your hearts, as in the prouocation, in the day of temptation in the wildernesse: |
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When your fathers tempted me, prooued me, and saw my works fourty yeeres. |
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Wherefore I was grieued with that generation, and sayd, They doe alway erre in their hearts, and they haue not knowen my wayes. |
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So I sware in my wrath: they shall not enter into my rest. |
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Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an euill heart of vnbeleefe, in departing from the liuing God. |
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But exhort one another dayly, while it is called To day, least any of you be hardned through the deceitfulnesse of sinne. |
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For wee are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast vnto the end. |
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Whilest it is sayd, To day if yee will heare his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the prouocation. |
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For some when they had heard, did prouoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. |
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But with whom was he grieued fourty yeeres? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wildernesse? |
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And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that beleeued not? |
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So we see that they could not enter in, because of vnbeleefe. |
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